Surface Syntax of English: A formal model within the meaning-text framework: 13 (Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe) - Hardcover

Mel’čuk, Igor; Pertsov, Nikolaj V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027215154 ISBN 13: 9789027215154

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1986

Synopsis

This book is the first attempt to describe the syntax of Contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it are: (1) a fully formal presentation, (2) a reasonably complete coverage of English surface syntax, and (3) an exposition oriented towards human readers (rather than computers).
The book can be recommended for several categories of readers: specialists in English syntax, linguists interested in general and theoretical syntax, computational linguists, researchers in related fields (including psychology and artificial intelligence) concerned with automatic processing (both synthesis and analysis) of English texts.

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Synopsis

This volume is the first attempt to describe the syntax of contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it are: 1) a fully formal presentation, 2) a reasonably complete coverage of English surface syntax and 3) an exposition oriented towards human readers (rather than computers). Written within a new theoretical framework known as the meaning-text approach, the book views English syntax from a different angle. For example, no transformations are involved and the discussion bears on problems only rarely (if at all) mentioned in current literature. At the same time, it is by no means the presentation of a new linguistic theory only illustrated or justified by English data. Instead, it is a description of English surface syntax based on a new theory, which has been applied to other languages as well (e.g. to Russian).

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027215154
• ISBN 13: 9789027215154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 544